Definitions for: Sleave






Webster (1913) Definition: Sleave, n. [Cf. Dan. sl["o]if, a knot loop, Sw. slejf,
G. schleife a knot, silding knot, and E. slip, v.i.]
(a) The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread.
(b) Silk not yet twisted; floss; -- called also {sleave
silk}.

Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.
--Shak.


Sleave, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sleaved; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sleaving.]
To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of
threads; to sley; -- a weaver's term.

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